Applying Anthropology : An Introductory Reader

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This supplementary reader is composed of both classic and contemporary articles that demonstrate the significant contributions that cultural anthropologists make; the emphasis is on the applicability of cultural anthropology to understanding and improving the present day human condition.

To the Student

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To the Instructor

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Introduction: Understanding Humans and Human Problems

1

(2)

PART I Biological Anthropology

3

(66)

Teaching Theories: The Evolution-Creation Controversy

6

(9)

Robert Root-Bernstein

Donald L. McEachron

What Are Friends For?

15

(6)

Barbara Smuts

What's Love Got to Do with It?

21

(4)

Meredith Small

Dawson's Dawn Man: The Hoax at Piltdown

25

(13)

Kenneth L. Feder

Ancient Bodies, Modern Customs, and Our Health

38

(10)

Elizabeth D. Whitaker

Ancient Genes and Modern Health

48

(4)

S. Boyd Eaton

Melvin Konner

The Tall and the Short of It

52

(5)

Barry Bogin

Recovery and Identification of Civilian Victims of War in Croatia

57

(5)

Douglas W. Owsley

Davor Strinovic

Mario Slaus

Dana D. Kollmann

Malcolm L. Richardson

Bred in the Bone?

62

(7)

Alan H. Goodman

PART II Archaeology

69

(48)

The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race

72

(4)

Jared Diamond

New Women of the Ice Age

76

(7)

Heather Pringle

Disease and Death at Dr. Dickson's Mounds

83

(5)

Alan H. Goodman

George J. Armelagos

Opportunities in Cultural Resources Management

88

(4)

Allen G. Pastron

The Secrets of Ancient Tiwanaku Are Benefiting Today's Bolivia

92

(6)

Baird Straughan

Easter's End

98

(6)

Jared Diamond

Profile of an Anthropologist From Tikal to Tucson: Today's Garbage Is Tomorrow's Artifact

104

(3)

Food Waste Behavior in an Urban Population

107

(7)

Gail G. Harrison

William L. Rathje

Wilson W. Hughes

Dawn of a New Stone Age in Eye Surgery

114

(3)

Payson D. Sheets

PART III Cultural Anthropology

117

(262)

Culture and Fieldwork

Body Ritual among the Nacirema

120

(4)

Horace Miner

Letter from Peri---Manus II

124

(4)

Margaret Mead

Tricking and Tripping: Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS

128

(8)

Claire E. Sterk

Crack in Spanish Harlem

136

(8)

Philippe Bourgois

Profile of an Anthropologist Corporate Anthropologists

144

(6)

Jennifer J. Laabs

Culture and Communication

Shakespeare in the Bush

150

(6)

Laura Bohannan

The Gift of Gab

156

(6)

Matt Cartmill

A Cultural Approach to Male-Female Miscommunication

162

(12)

Daniel N. Maltz

Ruth A. Borker

Culture and Food

You Are What You Eat: Religious Aspects of the Health Food Movement

174

(8)

Jill Dubisch

Chinese Table Manners: You Are How You Eat

182

(7)

Eugene Cooper

Culture and the Evolution of Obesity

189

(11)

Peter J. Brown

Culture and Race

Race without Color

200

(7)

Jared Diamond

Official Statement on ``Race''

207

(3)

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

210

(4)

Peggy Mclntosh

Race, Higher Education, and American Society

214

(9)

Yolanda T. Moses

Economy and Business

Eating Christmas in the Kalahari

223

(5)

Richard Borshay Lee

Strings Attached

228

(5)

Lee Cronk

The Domestication of Wood in Haiti: A Case Study in Applied Evolution

233

(9)

Gerald F. Murray

Using Cultural Skills for Cooperative Advantage in Japan

242

(12)

Richard H. Reeves-Ellington

Gender and Marriage

Society and Sex Roles

254

(6)

Ernestine Friedl

Doing Gender, Doing Surgery: Women Surgeons in a Man's Profession

260

(9)

Joan Cassell

Law, Custom, and Crimes Against Women: The Problem of Dowry Death in India

269

(11)

John van Willigen

V. C. Channa

When Brothers Share a Wife

280

(5)

Melvyn C. Goldstein

Education and Socialization

Anthropology in Education: Pushing the Frontier of Social Reform

285

(6)

Kathryn A. Kozaitis

Of Kwanzaa, Cinco de Mayo, and Whispering: The Need for Intercultural Education

291

(12)

Deborah Freedman Lustig

Suite for Ebony and Phonics

303

(5)

John R. Rickford

Politics, Law, and Warfare

Profile of an Anthropologist Crossing the Minefield: Politics of Refugee Research and Service

308

(5)

Jeffery L. MacDonald

The Kpelle Moot

313

(8)

James L. Gibbs, Jr.

Contemporary Warfare in the New Guinea Highlands

321

(9)

Aaron Podolefsky

Ritual and Curing

Loading the Bases: How Our Tribe Projects Its Own Image into the National Pastime